Creeping shadows

This fused form had a suppressing effect on everyone and everything in the area and the entire group had trouble not falling to their knees. "this is the fusion of familiars with their partners. if the conditions are right each and every one of you can achieve a similar form." the lipless vaguely humanoid face spoke with a deep rough bestial sound that made the whole group shiver. another flash of light and both leon and genesis appeared now separated and obviously tired despite only being fused for mere moments. "any questions?" leon asked while sitting down on a preprepared chair.

Quite a few people raised their hands after calming themselves once the suppression of the fused form wore off. "Yes miss dentir?" leon chose one of the people at random to get the ball rolling. "how exactly do we also achieve fusion like that?" the girl asked excitedly. leon watched as about half of the raised hands lowered at the question. "well the short version is there is no exact method. the long version is that both you and your familiar must have a single firm goal in mind to even have a chance to succeed."

"Beyond that however there are a whole lot of variables that i honestly don't know that also need to be filled to succeed. the worst part is that as far as my research confirms the difficulty and variables are different for each pair of partners. i had only discovered this form by accident thanks to the personalities and goals of myself and my familiar genesis being nearly identical. in other words you are on your own as far as figuring this out goes." leon explained seriously. "to be honest with all of you the only reason you are even being told about this form was so you aren't surprised later if you accidentally access it." he said honestly.

Most of the group looked disheartened at this statement but they could also understood what leon meant. the likelihood of them actually gaining access to that form was very small in leons eyes and the possibility of them being able to use it like him far lower. none of this was stated outright but it was clear to the foreign students that this was how leon thought. a few of the students looked at leon hatefully because of this disregard for their potential when they were used to others calling them talented.

Leon didn't deign to give these looks any of his attention and merely spent the rest of the lesson answering questions in regards to the fused form and it's abilities. the gist of his answers were "fuck if i know , you figure it out". the recordings of leons lessons with the foreign students angered the higher ups of the other kingdoms because it was clear that leon was not teaching to the best of his ability. anyone who had seen his previous lessons could figure out that leon was doing the absolute bare minimum to get the foreign students out of his hair which was favoritism at best and disdain at worst.

While the higher ups of the other kingdoms pitched a fit over the unequal treatment of their students giving ozpin a headache leon was preparing his next actual lesson. salem was immensely interested in these familiars that leon had introduced to the world since she had long discovered the entirety of what her powers were capable of and so she literally couldn't grow any stronger. but with this fused form she could break this limitation and grow even further.

The biggest problem she had was that she couldn't figure out how to remove the safety measure leon said he put on the circle to prevent people from dying in the attempt to summon a familiar. salem wasn't bothered by the fact that according to leon failure could shatter your very soul since if she died permanently she would have succeeding in spitting in the gods faces. the twin gods had cursed her to live forever so if she finally managed to end herself it would mean she defied them to her last. she could tell from leons appearance in the most recent videos that the corruption was reaching critical levels so he would soon be hers.

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